page_title: Jones and Laughlin Steel Company
section_title: J&L Coal Incline
hierarchical_section_title: Jones and Laughlin Steel Company / History / J&L Coal Incline
caption_attribution_description: English: Hot Metal Bridge, formerly used by Jones and Laughlin to transport steel across the Monongahela River
context_page_description: The Jones and Laughlin Steel Company began as the American Iron Company, founded in 1852 by Bernard Lauth and B. F. Jones, a few miles south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. Lauth's interest was bought in 1854 by James H. Laughlin. The first firm to bear the name of Jones and Laughlin was organized in 1861 and headquartered at Third & Ross in downtown Pittsburgh. Katharine Hepburn's maternal uncle, Frank Garlinghouse, was a longtime engineer for J&L Steel.
context_section_description: The J&L Coal Incline was a 1,300-foot (400 m) incline in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania connecting a coal mine to the J&L iron making facility.  It ran from Josephine Street, between South 29th street and South 30th Street on the lower end to Sumner Street on its upper end.
  It was supplied with coal from the American Mine, opened in 1854.
caption: Hot Metal Bridge, formerly used by Jones and Laughlin to transport steel across the Monongahela River
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